Latest in Tag: al-nour party Highlight
Latest in Tag: al-nour party

Makhyoun: “We will ally with parties of Islamic persuasion, but not the FJP”
Younis Makhyoun, the new leader of the Al-Nour Party, meets with Daily News Egypt.

Al-Nour party opposes electoral quotas
Salafi party says including quotas would jeopardise constitutionality of new electoral law

Islamist parties begin drawing coalition lines
Al-Nour Party states intentions to run independently, FJP ‘open’ to creating multiparty coalition

Al-Nour Party elects new high board
Salafi party concludes its first elections since the split of leading figures

Makhyoun wins Al-Nour leadership battle
New head of Salafi party extends olive branch to Copts

Bakkar calls for political truce
For sake of economic stability, Nader Bakkar calls for year-long truce.
Islamist parties set for merger
Hazem Abu Ismail to lead new Islamist party
Controversy over Al-Nour Party head resignation
Abdel Ghafour has allegedly resigned following a series of conflicts regarding Al-Nour Party’s internal elections

Salafi preacher rebuts controversial statements
Borhami denies insulting Al-Azhar
Al-Azhar responds to Borhami accusations
Al-Azhar representatives deny Borhami’s implications that they engaged in a deal to preserve a supreme stance in the constitution

Salafi preacher applauds freedom restrictions in the constitution
Borhami states the new constitution includes “full unprecedented restrictions”
President’s assistant announces dialogue initiative
Emad Abdel Ghafour announces “Egyptian political work convention,” which seeks to reach consensus between political groups

Referendum campaigns resume
Political groups resume campaigns, following preliminary results of the first round of the referendum

Alexandria standoff resolved
A fight between pro and anti-constitution demonstrators put Al-Qa’ed Ibrahim mosque under siege for over 12 hours
Defending the constitution
Salafi party produces a series of documentaries about the constituent assembly and the constitution

Calls for Islamist revolution
Hard-line calls continue for increased Shari’a influence despite the fact most Salafi parties are backing constitution

ElBaradei speech criticised by Al-Nour spokesman
ElBaradei called Islamists “clowns” and said his plan would do more than give people “a kilo of sugar and a litre of oil”
Constituent Assembly presidential dialogue
Sadat accuses president of meddling

Al-Nour and Salafi Calling say secularists “distorted” constitution behind their backs
Progressive parties also reject draft
News of Sukuk issuance agreement creates confusion among Islamist parties
The Ministry of Finance’s head of the Public Debt Unit, Samy Khallaf, declared that a preliminary agreement has been reached with 10 international investment banks to carry out the procedures of issuing the first Egyptian Islamic Sukuk in international markets. The value of the projected Sukuk, Khallafa dded, would range from $750 million to $1 …

Salafi Constituent Assembly member denies calling for ‘Shari’a Friday’ protest
Protests aimed at the draft constitution may not be necessary because of the upcoming Administrative Judiciary Court hearing which may yet dissolve its second assembly.
Sexual abuse in Suez
Sheikh accused of raping children in Suez referred to criminal court

New rift in Al-Nour party denied
Spokesmen say party stable after reconciliation despite news of internal coup in Matrouh

Al-Nour Party resolves internal rift
Party resolution brokered by its supreme commission and Salafi Calling
Sukuk law remains under deliberation
Islamic political parties push for the Sukuk law

Al-Nour Party favours internal solution to rift
Bakar says party will form reconciliation committee

The circus is in town
The circus is in town, people, and it is not leaving anytime soon. Sit back and enjoy the show.

Construction and Development to run on party list
Islamist parliamentarian says no to prospect of alliances
Review: Columnists debate Al-Nour clashes, Constituent Assembly members and Sinai
Columnists explore the continuing internal dispute splitting the Salafi Al-Nour party. Others dedicate their columns to Sinai and the suggested idea of arming tribes to safeguard the peninsula. On another note, some commentaries have discussed the growing debate on the Constituent Assembly and its membership, focusing on the five members who resumed their roles within …

Al-Nour elections continue despite party rift
High board members denounce former Chairman Abdel Ghafour